Spirituality, meaning, and transcendence.

End-of-life care provides an opportunity to help a patient find meaning in the experience of dying. This is a challenge because the experience of dying can rob a patient of meaning. The first step is to look at death as being a process of life rather than an event. This is brought about by welding the broken pieces of the mind-body connection. Medicine cannot always fix broken pieces, but spiritual welding always puts us back together again. Compassionate end-of-life care helps a patient connect spirituality with the search for meaning and transcendence.